Today’s ✠Challoner Meditation: January 24th On the vanity of all those things, that keep worldlings from the service of God
Meditations for every day of the year by Bishop ✠Richard Challoner
Category: 16.i.22 Holy Name
Today’s ✠Challoner Meditation: January 23rd On the happiness of serving God
Meditations for every day of the year by Bishop ✠Richard Challoner
Today’s ✠Challoner Meditation: January 22nd On the titles God has to our service
Meditations for every day of the year by Bishop ✠Richard Challoner
Carissimi; Today’s Mass: SS. Vincent & Anastasius, Martyrs
Vincent of Saragossa, Deacon (also known as Vincent of Aragon) Born in Huesca, Spain; died January 22, 304. He was educated and ordained a deacon by Bishop Saint Valerius of Saragossa with the commission to preach… Anastasius the Persian (also known as Magundat) died at Bethsaloe, Assyria, January 22, 628. According to his Greek biographer, Magundat was a young Persian soldier in the army of King Chosroes II when it captured Jerusalem in 614…
Today’s ✠Challoner Meditation: January 20th On our first beginning
Meditations for every day of the year by Bishop ✠Richard Challoner
Carissimi; Today’s Mass: SS. Fabian & Sebastian Martyrs
Pope Saint Fabian was a layman when elected pope, a position he held from January 10, 236 until his martyrdom on January 20, 250. St Sebastian died in 288 under Diocletian…
Today’s ✠Challoner Meditation: January 19th On the consideration of ourselves
Meditations for every day of the year by Bishop ✠Richard Challoner
Carissimi; Today’s Mass: St Wulstan of Worcester
Wulstan was the son of Athelstan and Wulfgeva. Even during his youth his piety had been noted, and he went on to study at the monasteries of Evesham and Peterborough. Once he was an adult his parents joined separate monasteries in Worcester. After his ordination Wulstan led his flock by good example rather than mere words and sermons…
Today’s ✠Challoner Meditation: January 18th On the consideration of the law of God
Meditations for every day of the year by Bishop ✠Richard Challoner
Carissimi; Today’s Mass: St Peter’s Chair at Rome
After St. Paul the Hermit, father of the Anchorites or hermits, the Christmas Cycle honours Saint Anthony, father of the Cenobites, who live in common…